Political Philosophy
A theory that states that the rightness of an action, policy, or institution is based on the consequences it produces.
What is Political Consequentialism
a meta-ethical theory that moral statements can be true or false, and that they express propositions.
What is Cognitivism?
The study of the nature of God and religious belief.
What is Theology?
Studies the properties of logical systems. Logic concerns the truths that may be derived using a logical system; _____ concerns the truths that may be derived about the languages and systems that are used to express truths.
What is Metalogic.
Focuses on the analysis of legal concepts and structures, examining how laws are defined and applied in a neutral manner.
What is Analytical Jurisprudence?
A political philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property and equality before the law.
What is Liberalism?
the view that moral judgments are prescriptions and therefore have the logical form of imperatives or commands.
What is Prescriptivism?
The belief that the existence of a god or the supernatural is either unknowable or unknown.
What is Agnosticism
Also known as first-order logic or quantified logic. It is a formal language in which propositions are expressed in terms of predicates, variables and quantifiers. It is different from propositional logic which lacks quantifiers.
What is Predicate Logic?
A theory within analytical jurisprudence that argues law is based on established social rules and not necessarily on morality.
What is Legal Positivism?
A form of government where a small, privileged class of people. These people are typically seen as the most successful or qualified giving them proper authority to rule.
What is Aristocracy?
a philosophical theory that states that moral statements express the speaker's feelings, rather than making propositions or statements of fact
What is Emotivism?
A theological concept that says any religion has some ideas that have a universal application or applicability.
What is Universalism?
A kind of non-classical logic requiring the antecedent and consequent of implications to be relevantly related.
What is Relevantistic Logic?
A legal theory that says legal determinations and law are products of social interests and public policy, not formal legal considerations.
What is Legal Realism?
What is Libertarianism
states that ethical statements are meaningful and can be proven true or false by examining their effects in the world.
What is Naturalism?
The idea that only one religion is true and the all others are wrong
What is Exclusivism?
A logic that is used to represent statements about necessity and possibility. It plays a major role in philosophy and related fields as a tool for understanding concepts such as knowledge, obligation, and causation.
What is Modal Logic?
A theory of law that describes how judges should decide cases by applying legal rules without regard to social or political factors. It can be understood as both a descriptive and prescriptive theory of law:
What is Legal Formalism?
A school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested states vying for power and positioning within an anarchic global system devoid of a centralized authority.
What is Political Realism?
a moral epistemology view that holds that some moral truths can be known without inference.
What is Intuitionism?
The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
What is Eschatology?
A logical system that rejects the law of the excluded middle, double negation elimination, and part of De Morgan's laws
What is Intuitionistic Logic?
The ethical, philosophical idea that people are to be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably by the law and by arbiters of the law, that laws are to ensure that no harm befalls another, and that, where harm is alleged, a remedial action is taken - both the accuser and the accused receive a morally right consequence merited by their actions
What is Justice?